Improvement in apparatus for measuring oloth



e. R. MclNTIRE.

Measuring Cloth.

No. 77.305. I Patented April 28, 1868.

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GEORGE R. McINTI RE', or H'OUGHTON, MICHIGAN.

Letters Patent No. 77,305, 'cZatedApril 28, 1868; mama April16, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS roa MEASURING 01.01211.

TO ALL WHOM 1r MA'Y OONC ERN: Be it known that. I, Greener: It. MeIN'rInn, ofthe city and county of Houghton, and State of Michigan, have invented a new and improved Cloth-Roller andyMeasurer; and I do hereby declare the following to he a full,

I clear, and exact description of the same, reference beingllad to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, and in which A Figure 1 is a side elevation of my invention. Figure 2 is a top view of the same; and

Figure 3 shows the ratchetqvheel, r, and the operating-apparatus; Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

In this invention the cloth is passed between two rollers, whi h are rotated by its motion, and the revolutions of which are recorded by a registering-apparatus. I

In order that others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains may be enabled to make and use the same, I will proceed to describe it in detail. i

r In the drawings, A A is the frame of my apparatus in the side-pieces of which bear two parallel rollers, B B, over which the cloth passes, and a roller, 0, above and between them, which rests uponthe cloth, and is rotated 'by it as it passes over the lower rollers B B. The journals of the roller Gbear in boxes resting on elastic cushions, and a small roller, 0, runs directly above it in contact with it, and pressed down upon it by the force of a spring, D, by which the roller 0 is kept in contact'with the cloth, and yet will adjust itself to difi'erent thicknesses of material. I i

For the purpose-of enabling the cloth to be more readily insertedhetween the rollers, the upper rollers C c are made to hear in separate pieces, a a, of the frame A, hinged to it at a. These pieces, with the rollers attached, can be turnedback, exposing the upper surface of the rollers B B, and leaving a space several inches in width, through which the cloth can be readily inserted and attached, The pieces a a may be connected and strengthened by a cross-bar, b, and when shut down in position for working the machine,,-may he's'till further steadied and strengthened by a pin or blade, 6, in the frame enteringa ,hole or groove in-the movable piece.

, The recording-apparatus is very simple and ejxiict, consisting of a cam, e, fixed tojthe projecting qof th roller G or its journal, and at every revolution of the roller striking circa-or oftener if desired,-against a hinged dog, d, and causingthe latter to move a ratchet-wheel, 1', one degree, or throughra space equal to the distance between two of its adjoining teeth. A small spring, :2, keeps the dog at in contact with the revolving cam e, and another, s, presses the dog against the ratchet-wheel. The shaft of the ratchet-wheel projects through a dial, D, and bears a finger, f, which indicates every revolution of the roller by moving forward one-degree upon the dial. i

The degrees on the dial correspond to revolutions of the-roller C. If the circumference of the'roller (l isone-quarter of a yard, then every degree on the dialiwillindicate one-quarter of a yard'; if one .yard, 'every degree willindicate one yard, &c., due. The indicating-apparatus can be extended atpleasure, like the indica tors of gas and water-meters, so as to record every ten yards, hundred yards, &c., measured by the mach'inei For the purpose of moving the c'lo th and rolling it up in a convenient manner for hand1ing',at the some time that it is measured, the shafts, M M, are provided, one, M, having a crank-shaft-for the purpose of turning it, and the other, M, bearing in a box supported by the screw N, by means of which it may bc serewed towards or from the opposite roller, and thus adjusted to cloths of different width.

A circular guide, G G,'is attached to each roller, to'guide the cloth and cause it to rollevenly upon the cloth-board H. The latter is any ordinary board upon which merchants roll cloth, and when in position, as shown in the drawings, is held by chucks. i

The machine is operated by passing thecloth over the roller-BB and under the-roller C, and attaching itsend to the 'board H. If the latter-is situated a quarter of a yard from the axis of the roller 0, the index should be moved one degree before the machine'is started, to indicate that quarter; The board H is then caused to revolve, by means of the erank-s'haftM,by whichthe cloth is drawn between the rollers, B, B, and O, causing me surface of the latter to travel just as fast as the cloth. The amount of cloth wound up on the board H is thus accurately measured and recorded upon the dial.

lz'la'viug thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination and errungementof the three rollersB, B, G, with the cam 'e, hinged dog 01, ratchetwheel 1', dial D, index f, and'movable framea, the whole operating substantially in the manner and for the purposes indicated. I

2. The cloth-measuring instrument above described, consisting of the parts referred to in the first clause of this claim, in combination with the shafts M M, screw N, guides G G, and-board H, all constructed, arranged, and combined, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

To the'above specification of my improvement I have signed iny hand, this twenty-sixth driy of July, 1867.

GEO. R. McINTIRE.

Witnesses:

CHARLES A. Par'rn', SOLON G. Kandy. 

